Recruiters World

Being myself recruiter I get calls from other recruiters for technical jobs... I cannot blame them as they do a random search on the resumes and call candidates. The best option is to " read through the lines " do a thorough understanding of this the benefits are a) Recruiters talk in the language of techies. b) Able to ask better questions c) Able to fill the Fit and No Fit analysis d) Able to know the job role better e) Candidate feel confident that he is not wasting time f) He might be interested to talk to you more about the job and equally excited g) Most important he won't think of other offers or do No Show for an interview because he feels recruiter know the business well Just a run through of thoughts came in, anything missed, please add. Love to hear from you all Have good Sunday :) Note : Sorry Folks, it is been a long time away from this blog. Will not go out, you can keep seeing a lot of my blogs coming and interesting information...

I was scanning on some of the job boards on Senior level hiring looking at some of the job postings looks very similar .. For (eg )   - Need to be team leader   -  Promote business   -Manage Finance ,P&L   - From B-School  like this the list goes on... I wonder if this is the job description given why most organization take lot of time fill in and what is the area and scope of recruiters to fill these top notch positions ... May be their is "I" factor involved looking like how if i apply for the position what are the areas /prerequisites which i look for ... Understanding the industry /is their any way recruiter had a casual chat with senior level executives and able to ask open- ended questions . "Open end questions is my favorite whenever i meet a senior person ." It helps me to widening my understanding + ability to check he is my guy for this job ... Most important never have fear when you talk to Senior Executives ...

This question that pops me when i ask my colleagues on their recruitment work  ,mostly i get response on quantitative they would say i did 8,10,16,24 ....50 , it is wonderful to hear big numbers every month that makes a person super hero recruiter  ... But if we look deeper in the numbers the quality of work is done might be less because i see various factors like pressure to get the position full filled, peer pressure to beat competition ,make more money ,be a top notch recruiter etc.. the list goes on.. For me Recruiter to be defined as artist with abundant creativity to trace people but even for me the artistic guy hides some where when it comes to numbers and focus myself to achieve numbers that is what we do always on our day 2 day basis and our bread and butter depends on it ... Any one might ask this recruiter with creativity is fade . No it is not but one thing we miss is the blending of creativity while doing our work in achieving numbers Let me say an ...

I would like to thank you for all the support you have given to make this blog running for 6 years now and it has given me more responsbility to make this blog more useful and simple ,thanks to you again for your reviews,thoughts and appreciations . My best wishes for this Glorious year 2013 . For a long while i didn't update on recruiter blog  as i went on sabbatical for some time also to know other aspects of Human resources will share those interesting experiences over the time. One thing that keeps hitting me as internal recruiter  is taking vendor support ,yes i did and everyone else has well taken support from agencies to close positions when you are in internal hiring where their is lot room for more activities apart from sourcing, (viz) preparing reports,meetings, talking to new hires ensuring they are in safe habitat and also day-to-day HR issues where in almost your 9 hr /12 hr day job is occupied and less time spent if you want to do sourcing... That is where we ...

I want to share common experience which you would have faced at all times,getting calls from recruiters where they start telling the job opening whether your in right place to listen,most times we get to hear job positions while at restrooms Why it is so...? I don't say it is a budding recruiter even senior recruitment professional do this at all times,even i heard from my friends that they given interview at restrooms which is very pathetic to hear,. One thing is most recruiters don't have ears to listen and all they want to fill positions which is not right way to do... Three things to follow 1) Ask 2) Listen 3) Valuable 1) Ask - Ask right questions to the candidate ,ensure and check with him whether he is in a position to talk , if he says yes proceed , if not check with him best time to call back /you can share your mobile number  to call him back , Thumb rule : every candidate is valuable as gold , don't loose at any cost ... 2)Listen- When g...

I was working through couple of my internal positions stating it is niche skill /passive or hiding and are not visible in any job board as most of the professionals  are happy in their current role except few who look for better pastures. Now every recruiter has this question ... How do you find these Passive  Professionals who are hiding .. Long time back  when i was new to recruitment, one of the organization where i worked they don't have job portals ,what they taught me is look beyond sourcing resumes away from these sites, be creative,use internet ,try to do networking with professionals,meet people in tech seminars and most important dont sit in office and source resumes , this will not happen,which is true. What they practiced and taught me is of passive recruitment and that helped me to do till now not working thru portals,meeting people at seminars,keep myself about latest niche ones,sourcing thru social media etc. I understand it is hard fact to go and...

Many times i used to get responses from potential candidates when they are looking for opportunities abroad,hiring managers/recruiters calling them at odd hours and some started interviewing them without asking them whether the candidate can discuss or not ,based on this most potential resources are rejected in the interview ... This is because most recruiters/hiring managers don't look at time zones ,it do happens either wise calling from India to other locations, usual response i see we are running under pressure to get resources but we don't think when calling the resource at this odd timings without prior notice we are giving a candidate a bad feeling about your organization. Agreed that we are all under pressure to recruit,first thing please ensure the candidates knows that you are calling,this is not being done most times a) First send a mail/phone communique to shortlisted candidates to check on availability and here don't push him/her    ,do negotiate timings as th...